ISLAMABAD :Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to be the guest of honor today at a prestigious ceremony commemorating the successful completion of a massive coal-fired power project in Thar Block-1. According to the top officials of Thar Coal Block-1 Power Generation Company (Pvt) Ltd, Prime Minister Sharif will participate in the festivities to announce the Commercial Operation Date (COD) for the 2X660MW Coal-Fired Power Plant Project in Thar Coal Block-1. The project has already cleared the 168-hours Reliability Operation Test and commenced Commercial Operation on February 5th of this year.
TCB-1 power plant is the first large-scale thermal power generation project in the world independently developed, constructed and operated by Shanghai Electric, and TCB-1 is a main energy project of the national “The Belt and Road Initiative”(BRI) and a key energy cooperation project of the “China-Pakistan Economic Corridor”(CPEC). “Since the start of the TCB-1 power station project construction in 2019, the project team has worked together with all participating parties to overcome difficulties, such as the harsh natural environment of the Thar Desert, Covid-19 epidemic, complicated security situations, and insufficient capacity of power infrastructure. Finally, TCB-1 broke through numerous challenges and achieved this major milestone,” Mr. Donghai said.